Cool it gentlemen. AthlonX2 is the guy running this thread and it is up to him what the criteria is in running these benchmarks. The arguing over settings is not valid in any way as what he says goes. If you don't care for the methods used in running this benchmark under the guidelines of this thread there's nothing you can do. Whining about it will get you nowhere. If you feel the need to create your own thread with your own rules on how this test should be run, by all means do it and don't crap on this thread. I'm not going to repeat myself.

Why would we? Its a known thing to do from a benching perspective. its accepted at Hwbot which is THE authority for that type of stuff, so to even humor the thought is a bit odd to me, when all that needs told to him is how benchmarks work and what is/is not accepted.

But then again, this is the place that allows PhysX for Vantage so, maybe I'll just hang my hat up..... LOl!

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EDIT: HOnestly, it just shows how green you are to this benching scene is all. Its not a cheat.

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The above is what I was basing that from . If you think it's green why not prove it...

GAWD! Change it to what? How do you propose to institute this change and what will it look like/reflect? Lord, someone please help me to make them understand.

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I've already offered you my suggestion. Which is why you are not getting it for the most part. You don't have to police the community to simply add "These results may consitute the use of Performance settings in the control panel".

GAWD! Change it to what? How do you propose to institute this change and what will it look like/reflect? Lord, someone please help me to make them understand.

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ECH, let me put it this way...please go read the OP again.

Now, I haven't seen you submit a single score, not one, so I don't understand why you are even posting here...there's nothing here for you to lose, except this bit of trolling you have undertook.

Now, if you had posted your own score, and said "Hey!"...but you're just up there on the soapbox complaining...you found some troll food, and noew you are eating it. So, now I am gonna have to go back through this thread, and start reporting posts. If you go back up a bit a few posts, you'll see erocker posting that he thinks this is all fine and dandy...so you can be sure he's not gonna like having to deal with the moderation duties pertaining to your posts.

Anyone who thinks that setting the slider in CCC or NVCP is cheating just needs to learn what the goal of benchmarking is. End. User. Education.

@ erocker/staff: Your site is what your threads are, and if you have members starting benchmarking threads that go against the grain and make no sense in the setup to be fair across the board (for example the vantage thread that allows PhysX), well, from the benching community at least, you lose clout. Not that you need or want it, but its what it does. Im sorry if that offends anyone, but it is what it is.

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No infraction since your post is directed at myself. If Techpowerup had an official benchmarking thread your point would be valid.

They dont, but you are what your members post. And if thats garbage (whch 99.999% is not) then you are garbage. Members start garbage bench threads, someone 'in the know' should be able to step in and make things 'right' if anything is wrong. And for the record the only concern I have had at this site are the vantage threads and PhysX, but if I recall that (finally) changed.

Cheers... *waves hand in face* this is not the driods you are looking for *runs out of thread*.

They dont, but you are what your members post. And if thats garbage (whch 99.999% is not) then you are garbage. Members start garbage bench threads, someone 'in the know' should be able to step in and make things 'right' if anything is wrong. And for the record the only concern I have had at this site are the vantage threads and PhysX, but if I recall that (finally) changed.

Cheers... *waves hand in face* this is not the driods you are looking for *runs out of thread*.

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Well since there is no way to know what people set in thier graphics control panels, the only solution is to allow it. Unless, of course you have a way to find out what these people are running for settings in their CP's, we'd all love to hear it.

HD4870 - How did you run the benchmark with no driver installed? (When I tried the Windows driver it errored with no DX11 compliant)

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I don't know tnh

I was changing between GTX580 and HD5870 back and forth and every time I was uninstalling Drivers, the last time I removed GTX580 and put HD5870 I found that the driver is installed with no CCC and I decided to bench it that way